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Speaker 2 Sabrina and Robert Lamone were really kind of an it couple.

Speaker 2 So bubbly, so vivacious.

Speaker 3 They were partying more.

Speaker 5 They were drinking a lot.

Speaker 6 They open up their marriage, meaning other couples have come into the bedroom.

Speaker 5 Robert, his words were, we're having too much fun and everything is fine.

Speaker 9 Julie called me and told me that there had been a terrible accident at the railroad and I asked her, what happened? Where's my brother?

Speaker 10 I'm yelling in the phone, what's wrong with my brother?

Speaker 11 And he told us that my brother had been shot.

Speaker 12 Are you thinking robbery? A robbery gone bad?

Speaker 13 This looked as though maybe it had been staged.

Speaker 14 Some drawers were pulled out, other drawers were not pulled out. It screamed as being a staged crime scene.

Speaker 12 But that crime scene is just the tip of the iceberg.

Speaker 16 Hi, God.

Speaker 17 We're on our knees for a reason.

Speaker 3 We have been dirtbags, we've been sinners, we've been selfish, we've deserved it.

Speaker 12 For a whodone it that's boiling underneath.

Speaker 6 This investigation takes cops down a very unusual road that involves God

Speaker 6 and David and Bathsheba and murder.

Speaker 4 A monster took our Roberts' life.

Speaker 19 So as you're coming down Route 66 and you turn into the Silver Lakes community,

Speaker 20 it is hard to not compare this place to a desert oasis.

Speaker 2 Silver Lakes is a small community. It's about 99 miles from Los Angeles, halfway between Victorville and Barstow.

Speaker 20 There are two lakes here.

Speaker 19 It is a family-orientated place and There's so many opportunities for families to have a very affordable living in a beautiful neighborhood.

Speaker 23 Some people moved to Silver Lakes to to either retire or to have more of a private, like less city life.

Speaker 12 And it's in Silver Lakes where Robert and Sabrina Limon live with their two children.

Speaker 6 And just to put the icing on the cake of this picture of domesticity, the street they lived on was Strawberry Lane.

Speaker 5 Sabrina is my baby sister.

Speaker 5 She was born when I was 15 years old and we've just had a bond ever since she was born. We grew up in Barstow

Speaker 5 and I got married to Randy so I moved out at 18

Speaker 5 and Randy and I had this little home and so Sabrina would come and she would stay with us. She was always trying to entertain.

Speaker 5 She has such a talent just to be an amazing, funny person even when she was little. And every time we'd take a picture, we'd do, let's do a Brina picture, and we would all do our hands.

Speaker 5 So it was just something that she took on when she was little and it stuck with her all this time.

Speaker 24 She was just so sweet.

Speaker 25 She

Speaker 26 just had just a heart for people.

Speaker 24 Just sweet. She was just so loving.

Speaker 5 My dad had decided that he was going to retire and his dream was to retire in Prescott, Arizona.

Speaker 5 So Sabrina was, I want to say, 13

Speaker 5 and she made a lot of wonderful friends there and that's where she met Robert was in Prescott.

Speaker 12 At the age of 18 Sabrina meets Robert Lamon and it's an instant attraction.

Speaker 5 Here he was with the big tattoo Lamon, you know, tatted on the back of his head, but he was a big teddy bear.

Speaker 9 He wanted us to meet his girlfriend. We were all sitting in the kitchen and Robert pulls up in his truck and Sabrina gets out and I looked out the window and I told mom, Robert's going to marry her.

Speaker 5 Robert and Sabrina had a total connection and they started to go to church and then when they were going to get married they were baptized together. Sabrina and Robert got married in 2000.

Speaker 5 The wedding was in Arizona and it was just a beautiful wedding. I was the maid of honor and Sabrina was just a beautiful bride.

Speaker 12 Not long after their wedding, Sabrina and Rob moved to Silver Lakes, a low-key desert community in California.

Speaker 12 And with the help of Julie's husband, Randy, Rob gets a job working at BNSF Railroad in Barstow.

Speaker 5 When they moved to Silver Lakes, they went to church for

Speaker 5 a few years, but Sabrina's faith never wavered.

Speaker 7 She always, always had her Bible.

Speaker 6 The family life for the Lamoans was brilliant. It was loving.
Sabrina devoted her life to her children. That was her number one priority, and she was, by choice, a stay-at-home mom.

Speaker 6 Robert was really hardworking.

Speaker 12 reliable.

Speaker 6 They were also a family that liked to have fun. They had a lot of friends.

Speaker 23 When we lived in Silver Lakes, I was a stay-at-home mom. We had two children, and I was married to a fireman.

Speaker 12 Nicolette asked us not to use her last name.

Speaker 23 I met Rob and Sabrina on our son's t-ball team.

Speaker 2 Sabrina and Robert Lamone were really kind of an it couple.

Speaker 2 And all the photos you see of them, all the stories you hear about them, they seem so bubbly, so vivacious.

Speaker 23 Robin Sabrina would have people come to their house,

Speaker 29 you know, to have gatherings or they would be drinking.

Speaker 23 Rob and Sabrina, they seemed very happy.

Speaker 6 They were always calling each other sweet little names, always kissing each other, laughing a lot.

Speaker 23 A lot of people wanted their husbands to be like Rob just because he was very in tuned with Sabrina.

Speaker 23 He gave her everything.

Speaker 12 They weren't just a tight family.

Speaker 5 They also had a core group of friends, other couples.

Speaker 12 They called themselves the Wolf Pack.

Speaker 25 And there was a lot of boating and partying.

Speaker 23 There was a group of friends that hung out with them, and they would go a lot of places together. I wasn't friends with anybody that was a part of it.
It was after me.

Speaker 6 Among this wolf pack is a couple. Jason and Kelly Bernatine.

Speaker 6 They were particularly close to Sabrina and Robert. Jason was a firefighter and Kelly was a hairstylist.
In fact, that's how she met Sabrina.

Speaker 5 Kelly, Bernatine is the one that started the Wolfpack. You know, Sabrina would tell me when she first met Kelly, Kelly was just the greatest thing ever.

Speaker 6 So between 2000 and 2008, it's a pretty steady marriage.

Speaker 6 Great family life, great social life, everything going well.

Speaker 6 But in 2008,

Speaker 6 something starts happening in this relationship.

Speaker 5 Sabrina would invite everyone over to their house. Sometimes you couldn't even fit into the house.

Speaker 23 We all lived within a mile of each other or less. So Robin and Sabrina would come to our house, we'd go to their house, but it was pretty much like eating and drinking.

Speaker 5 Sabrina was drinking so much all the time

Speaker 5 that

Speaker 5 she was pretty numb, I think, to a lot of things, but she didn't share with me what was going on.

Speaker 23 Always stuck in my head of it's five o'clock somewhere is always what she said, because she just always wanted to drink.

Speaker 5 Sabrina did not ask for help. I would talk to her about it and she'd be like, oh, Julie, I'm fine.
It was the same thing with me. If we didn't admit it, it wasn't real.

Speaker 2 And that may be one of the first indications that things aren't as happy and nice as they appear.

Speaker 12 It was during this time of heavy partying that the couple decided to shake up their marriage. And this beautiful family portrait would be shattered for good.

Speaker 14 The Tachby Loop was engineered to assist trains in not going too fast as they're coming down the mountains from Mojave into Tatchpee.

Speaker 6 Robert was known as a rapid responder. He would fill in for other people who needed some time off at the last second.

Speaker 5 Robert would have to go to wherever the problem was on the train.

Speaker 5 So if the train broke down, then he would go out and he would fix it.

Speaker 14 When they're stopped, it's not uncommon for someone to break into the trains and steal the contents of its cargo.

Speaker 5 Robert came across a bear one time. It was a very dangerous job.
For one person to work that job is just unreal to me.

Speaker 12 By all accounts, Rob loved the railroad. He not only worked in Tehachapi on a part-time basis, but he also worked in the rail yard in Barstow.

Speaker 12 That fascination with the railroad came from his dad.

Speaker 9 My dad started with the railroad working with a group in the railroad called the TIGAN.

Speaker 9 Just a day in, day out, all they did was change railroad tracks.

Speaker 12 Because of that job, Rob's father had to move a lot. That's how the family wound up in small rural towns throughout Arizona.

Speaker 9 Shortly after my parents' divorce in 86, they moved to Mojave, Arizona, where my brother finished off his last couple of years of high school.

Speaker 8 He really loved playing football.

Speaker 9 He played a defensive end or defensive tackle.

Speaker 32 Well, Robert Lamone was one of my special kids. Personally coached him in football.
I paid more attention to him because I could tell that he needed somebody to guide him along.

Speaker 32 He needed that person that would pat him on the back.

Speaker 32 Rob stood out to a lot of people because to make ends meet, Rob would bring homemade burritos that his family family would make which were delicious and he would sell them at school and the money he raised helped support his family.

Speaker 9 My dad when he was home on weekends him and Robert would go out and my dad would sell burritos to people along the railroad.

Speaker 9 I think that's where Robert got a lot of his social behavior from is just hanging out with dad and going out and meeting people.

Speaker 12 By 2000, Rob is happily married to Sabrina living in Silver Lakes and working that dream job with BNSF Railroad. Their life seemed to be pretty good.

Speaker 12 But the reality was much darker with what was going on behind closed doors.

Speaker 2 In 2008, Rob and Sabrina decided mutually that they wanted to have a little bit more excitement in their relationship.

Speaker 5 I saw a difference in Robert and Sabrina's marriage.

Speaker 5 Not so much their marriage, but their way of living and their lifestyle.

Speaker 2 They started to have relations with other couples.

Speaker 23 Sabrina and I were out one night.

Speaker 7 I dropped her off at her house in her driveway and she propositioned me for her and Rob.

Speaker 23 And I told her, no, I'm married.

Speaker 12 Like, I was kind of like shocked.

Speaker 25 And then she was like, okay, well, let me talk to Rob.

Speaker 34 And I'm like, what?

Speaker 12 So it just caught me off guard.

Speaker 23 And I'm thinking, this is what they do.

Speaker 23 And then eventually, I don't even know, a couple weeks later, later, something ended up where it happened.

Speaker 23 My husband and I at the time had agreements that like we were going to kiss, you know, we knew that we would talk about it. Only happened a couple times and that was it.

Speaker 23 A lot of the community already knew that like Rob and Sabrina had an open marriage in a roundabout way.

Speaker 12 Another couple also involved with Rob and Sabrina at the time were friends from the Wolf Pack, Jason and Kelly Bernatine.

Speaker 5 They went on adult vacations, they went out boating,

Speaker 5 they partied a lot at the North Lake.

Speaker 19 It was usually Sabrina and I and then we would go have sex with our husbands.

Speaker 5 Sabrina, she was tired of being in an open marriage.

Speaker 23 I remember her saying Rob would kind of insinuate her to change certain things about her.

Speaker 23 He did tell her something that he must have liked about me to change on her and she had brought it to my attention and I just thought that was wrong.

Speaker 23 I just told him I wouldn't want my husband telling me something about another woman.

Speaker 7 We opened our marriage bed and it changed the dynamics of

Speaker 35 our sacred bond as soon as we made that choice together.

Speaker 6 Some say it was Sabrina's idea. Others say Rob was into it.
Unless we were flies on the wall in the bedroom, we won't know for sure.

Speaker 5 The only thing she complained about is that she wanted to go back to church and she wanted Robert to go back to church.

Speaker 5 Robert felt like they would be hypocrites if they went back to church. Robert didn't want to change back.
He wanted to continue with the fun

Speaker 5 and all that they were doing.

Speaker 5 Despite the open marriage, Robert and Sabrina still loved each other.

Speaker 12 On August 17th, 2014, Rob is filling in for a co-worker and that morning, like he's done so many other times, he drives the 85 miles to Tehachapi.

Speaker 12 When Rob isn't on call fixing broken-down trains, he is typically in the BNSF office.

Speaker 12 which is a nondescript industrial warehouse on the outskirts of town.

Speaker 13 It's on Goodrick Drive, which is a one-way in and a one-way out street. So if you're going to go there, that's going to either be you have a destination or you're lost.

Speaker 6 Robert was due to get off at seven in the evening and return home to his wife and kids.

Speaker 5 I talked to Sabrina a few times later on that evening and then she's like, I keep trying to get a hold of Rob. I can't get a hold of him.

Speaker 5 Her daughter was waiting up for him because it was going to be her first day of school and she wanted to give her daddy a kiss good night. And I said, oh, Brianna, he'll call you.

Speaker 5 Maybe he's out on a train or something.

Speaker 6 Around 7 p.m. Rob's replacement shows up to take over the shift.

Speaker 6 Immediately he sees things don't seem right.

Speaker 5 Their daughter wanted to talk to him on the phone, desperately,

Speaker 4 and they just kept calling and calling and calling.

Speaker 5 And there was no answer.

Speaker 9 Julie called me. I asked her, what happened? Where's my brother?

Speaker 10 And I could hear the phone drop.

Speaker 38 On August 17th, 2014, it's a Sunday. Robert Lamon is working at the rail yard in Tehachapi.
He's covering a shift for someone else. It's about 7 p.m.

Speaker 38 when his coworker walks into the office and finds Robert Lamone bleeding on the ground. He calls 911.

Speaker 12 There's a call that comes in. There is.
A man has been shot.

Speaker 13 What happens on that type of a call is the homicide unit gets a call. The guys come up here from the unit, as well as our technical investigators.

Speaker 12 Railroad tracks here. Yes.
So this is the train?

Speaker 13 Yes, this is the train that comes through Tehachapi.

Speaker 13 And we're pulling onto Goodrick Drive now, which is the one-way in and one way out.

Speaker 13 And as we're coming to the industrial complex.

Speaker 12 This is way back off the beaten path.

Speaker 28 It is.

Speaker 13 It absolutely is. That's why I believe that somebody purposely had to come here or they were lost.

Speaker 12 The body is found inside this warehouse used by the BNSF Railway. What do the detectives find once they get here?

Speaker 41 As they arrive here, this roll-up door, this large roll-up door, is open.

Speaker 13 Inside, there is a large work truck. Next to the truck, near the driver's door, there is Robert Lamon.
And he's sort of propped up against the truck.

Speaker 12 And what kind of condition was Robert Lamon in? He had been shot once, twice?

Speaker 42 Twice.

Speaker 13 Yes, he'd been shot in the upper torso area and in the head.

Speaker 14 When I arrived during the walkthrough, I observed he was laying next to a refrigerator. This photograph here is significant.
We found that there was blood spatter on the side of the refrigerator door.

Speaker 14 There was blood starting to pull underneath his body. But we did find an expended bullet that was on the ground just above Rob's head.

Speaker 13 And they also found the office inside had been sort of ransacked and they found drawers pulled from a desk. They found binders and shot manuals and things on the floor.

Speaker 12 Are you thinking robbery? A robbery gone bad?

Speaker 13 Initially, yes, it did look that way.

Speaker 12 What leads you to think that that's not the case?

Speaker 13 So as we begin looking at the crime scene itself and you're finding shot manuals pulled out onto the ground, it's very odd that you can't steal those and trade them.

Speaker 13 And generally, people who commit crimes of murder and things like that are looking for fast money. And we sort of determined that, you know, this looked as though maybe it had been staged.

Speaker 12 So, your hunch was that this wasn't a legitimate robbery, that somebody tried to make it look like it was a robbery?

Speaker 42 Yes.

Speaker 13 When detectives contacted Sabrina Lamon and informed her that her husband had been in fact murdered, her actions and her demeanor was appropriate. I mean she was crying.

Speaker 5 I got a phone call

Speaker 5 and it was Sabrina and she was just screaming and asking me to go over to her house. And I know that I kept saying, are you sure it was Robert? Because Robert was so strong.

Speaker 5 We couldn't believe it. We just couldn't believe it.

Speaker 9 I got the call August the 17th. Julie called me and told me that there had been a terrible accident at the railroad, and my brother was no longer with us.
And I asked her, What happened?

Speaker 9 Where's my brother? What happened, brother?

Speaker 10 And I could hear the phone drop.

Speaker 10 And then I'm yelling in the phone, What's wrong with my brother?

Speaker 31 And then

Speaker 7 Randy got on the phone

Speaker 11 and he told us that my brother had been shot.

Speaker 23 I was called the very next morning by a friend of mine that lived in Silver Lakes telling me that Rob had been killed and I felt so bad for the kids.

Speaker 12 With detectives sorting out the crime scene and processing evidence, Rob's family is coming together to make funeral arrangements.

Speaker 9 When my brother passed away, we were at Sabrina's house and Julie took me into the back bedroom and Sabrina didn't want to talk about the services arrangements and the funeral and all that.

Speaker 9 She just wasn't dealing with it.

Speaker 5 There were people everywhere. I mean it was overwhelming.
Sabrina stayed in her room most of the time. She just had a hard time.

Speaker 5 It was unbelievable.

Speaker 38 So a few days following Robert Lamone's death, there was a memorial held at a local Hellendale church where hundreds of people gathered.

Speaker 38 He was somebody who was beloved by many in that community, so they gathered to pay their respects.

Speaker 12 What were you learning about this guy, Robert Limon, as you began to ask people about him?

Speaker 13 We began interviewing his family and friends, and they said that he was a great guy. Everyone that we spoke with said that he was just a fantastic person.

Speaker 13 He was sort of the husband that every woman would want. I think we got nothing but praise about him from family and friends.

Speaker 29 I was shocked that Rob got killed.

Speaker 23 I mean, I was the last person you would think that would ever get killed. Rob was just such a good person.
I mean, he was a great dad.

Speaker 2 Detectives didn't really know who might have committed this murder. Robert didn't have any enemies.
Nobody seemed to have any animosity toward him.

Speaker 12 No eyewitnesses, no apparent evidence here at the scene. So you just have to just start looking.

Speaker 13 The following day, during daylight hours, hours, we came out and began canvassing the area. And upon doing so, we found this video surveillance camera right here.

Speaker 13 And this is the camera that actually captures the only footage we had for that entire day of anyone within this complex.

Speaker 13 This is the camera that captured the person walking through the complex with an exaggerated limp walking towards the BNSF location where Rob was found dead.

Speaker 12 You were just hoping that this would show you something.

Speaker 13 We thought this would be great. There's the potential this is going to actually have footage of the person who committed this crime.

Speaker 44 Robert was a rapid responder for the railway and was returning to the shop after work when he was attacked.

Speaker 12 Rob Lamon is dead after being shot twice. Now detectives are asking the same question that's being asked from Tehachapi all the way to Silver Lakes.

Speaker 7 Why?

Speaker 14 No one had any reason to suspect or know of anyone that wanted Robert Lamon killed or dead. He was well-liked by everyone, and no one could imagine any reason why someone would want to kill Robert.

Speaker 38 When police found Robert Lamon on the ground suffering from the gunshots, they started to look around the office. They found the place really ransacked and disheveled.

Speaker 38 But what was really interesting as they thought about could this have been a robbery was there was no money really being held at the rail yard.

Speaker 13 Each and every single one of us had the overwhelming opinion that the office within this BNSF railroad complex appears that the crime scene had been staged.

Speaker 38 So the Kern County Sheriff's Department and the investigators were spending a lot of time with Sabrina Lamone trying to gather information about who might have had a motive to harm Robert Lamone.

Speaker 13 When they asked her about her marriage with Rob, she said everything was great. She said there was no extramarital relationships that she was involved in or she was aware that Rob was involved in.

Speaker 13 And so at that point in time, she was unable to provide us any information with respect to who may have killed Rob.

Speaker 12 The expended bullet that investigators find at the crime scene is fragmented and is of no evidentiary value. And there are no shell casings at the scene either.

Speaker 12 But during the autopsy, investigators catch a break.

Speaker 13 We discovered that

Speaker 14 the gun used in this case was a larger caliber, probably a 44 Magnum or a 45, or possibly larger. So we were looking for, in all likelihood, a handgun of larger caliber.

Speaker 12 Investigators now know what kind of weapon they're looking for, and they soon get a promising lead from a local gunsmith.

Speaker 14 We received a tip that someone went into a local gun store in Tatchby and requested that their firing pin be replaced.

Speaker 13 Detectives were hopeful that this was possibly a great lead, and this could possibly be the gun that was actually used in Rob's murder.

Speaker 12 But any hope for a quick resolution is short-lived.

Speaker 14 We seized the gun in question, had it examined, and had it compared to the bullet that was found at the scene, and we found that the two did not match.

Speaker 12 This is soon a tireless investigation with detectives searching the crime scene, looking at surveillance cameras, hoping they might have captured a possible suspect.

Speaker 12 The first camera they check is actually in the garage where the murder happened.

Speaker 14 So this is a photograph of the truck that Rob was driving that evening during a shift. We were hopeful initially that we might be able to get some video surveillance from, being that

Speaker 14 many of the trucks are equipped with cameras, but unfortunately the cameras aren't running 24-7 and they're only recording when they're actually being operated.

Speaker 13 We began canvassing the area and upon doing so we found this video surveillance camera right here.

Speaker 12 And once you began to look at the surveillance video from this camera, what did you see exactly?

Speaker 13 We saw a subject. You couldn't really tell his age.
The quality of the video is not the best. And you could see him walking with a limp through the complex

Speaker 13 and then towards, once again, where... Down this way.
Correct, where the BNSF rail business is located.

Speaker 12 Was it clear enough that you could make out whether it was a man or a woman or older?

Speaker 13 You could tell that it was a man. I think that would be fair to say that it was a man.
But anything other than that, age, ethnicity, no.

Speaker 12 And when you saw that person walking over here, did you think that could be your suspect?

Speaker 13 It's a very high potential that it could have been.

Speaker 6 You see a guy on security footage, you're going to get excited. Who else could it be? It seems so promising.

Speaker 12 Did people recognize the person? Were you able to get a good look at this person?

Speaker 13 The only video we released was the person in the industrial complex.

Speaker 13 Some of the tips we got led us to a local transient that people believed could have been potentially involved, and we were able to locate that person and ultimately eliminate them as the suspect.

Speaker 14 We were back to square one without a whole lot of leads to follow up on.

Speaker 6 Sabrina and her family and the detectives aren't the only people desperate for answers. The people at BNSF Railroad also want to help.

Speaker 44 BNSF Railway is now offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and the murder of one of its employees.

Speaker 12 Detectives get some leads from the reward offer, but it's the discovery of more surveillance video from a nearby company that helps open up the investigation.

Speaker 13 Video surveillance footage did in fact show Rob Lamon driving on Goodrick Drive.

Speaker 12 So you began looking deeper.

Speaker 13 On the day in question, there was multiple vehicles that were on Goodrick Drive, where Rob Lamone was located.

Speaker 13 We were able to identify each, every person driving those vehicles on that day day with the exception of a lone motorist on a motorcycle.

Speaker 13 The video surveillance captured a subject riding his motorcycle eastbound on Goodrick Drive and then a short time later he was leaving Goodrick westbound.

Speaker 12 Adding to that suspicion, the motorcycle is spotted around the same time investigators think Robert Lamon was murdered. But the driver of that motorcycle is a mystery.

Speaker 38 So the investigation was slow, but on September 1st, 2014, investigators received a call that changed the entire course of the investigation.

Speaker 13 Robert Lamone's friend contacted us and told us that he received a very odd message left on his cellular phone from a subject whom he identified as Jonathan Hearn.

Speaker 13 He thought what was very odd about the voice messages is that Jonathan seemed very apologetic for Rob's death.

Speaker 12 But who exactly is Jonathan Hearn?

Speaker 13 This is the first time during the investigation that we heard the name Jonathan Hearn.

Speaker 6 Once detectives speak with Mr. Hearn, they are suddenly led down a whole new investigative path.

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Speaker 6 About three weeks after Robert was murdered,

Speaker 6 police got a game-changing phone call. from Robert's good friend, Jason Bernity.

Speaker 6 It really changes the face of everything.

Speaker 2 Detectives really didn't have any strong leads in this investigation until Jason Bernatine had come forward.

Speaker 13 He had a very strange voicemail left on his phone.

Speaker 14 Jason told us that Sabrina was possibly involved with a Redlands fireman by the name of Jonathan Hearn.

Speaker 13 Jason Bernatine knew Jonathan Hearn due to they're both firefighters and that they used to work with one another, especially when Jonathan was a paramedic on an ambulance crew.

Speaker 13 So they ran calls together.

Speaker 2 Jonathan Hearn grew up a little bit sheltered, it seemed. He was a good-looking guy, really fit, and I think he was incredibly ambitious too, especially for his age.

Speaker 36 Jonathan Hearn.

Speaker 12 Jonathan graduated from his paramedic program with honors, even got an award for outstanding performance.

Speaker 6 Jonathan Hearn really did have a natural instinct to draw people in. He's a first responder.
He took care of elderly ladies and he would make them feel okay and everything's fine.

Speaker 12 Had you heard of Jonathan Hearn before?

Speaker 52 No, we had not.

Speaker 12 So what did he tell you about Jonathan Hearn?

Speaker 13 He knew that Jonathan Hearn actually had possibly a dating or romantic relationship with Sabrina Lamone outside of Robert Lamone.

Speaker 13 And it was odd and suspicious in the fact that Jonathan called Jason and apologized to him for having this relationship with Sabrina outside of Rob's knowledge.

Speaker 6 Then shortly after the voicemail, Jason Bernatine has something new to turn over to cops, and that's the strangest of letters from Jonathan Hearn.

Speaker 12 In that letter to Jason, Jonathan repeatedly asks for forgiveness from the Bernatines, but he never explains why he's asking for it. The first and biggest regret left undone was my sin against you.

Speaker 12 With no further ado, please let me ask for your forgiveness. I'm sorry for being prideful, for being selfish, and for being disrespectful.

Speaker 12 For you, as an investigator, you're thinking, Why would you write this letter after the fact?

Speaker 13 Rob's dead, and this is just odd. This is just very odd behavior from this person.

Speaker 14 Jonathan Hearn was originally not on our radar whatsoever.

Speaker 14 When Jason came to us and told us about Sabrina and Jonathan's possible relationship, we immediately started looking into Jonathan to find out if we could make any sort of connection or a link to Rob.

Speaker 6 Detectives are blasting through this new lead with Jonathan Hearn, and they learn all kinds of things.

Speaker 12 Now, what about Rob LeMond? Are you learning anything about him and his relationships outside of his marriage?

Speaker 13 So it was told to us that there was the potential that him and his wife had an open relationship, meaning the non-traditional marriage with other people within their small group of friends.

Speaker 12 So if you know that Rob Le Mon is possibly having relationships outside of his marriage, and now you learn that his wife is too, where does that take you in this investigation?

Speaker 13 So it circled us all the way back around to Jonathan Hearn.

Speaker 12 But how did Jonathan Hearn even know Sabrina Le Mone? She was 10 10 years older and they didn't run in the same circles.

Speaker 2 In 2012, Sabrina went to work with a part-time job at Costco. She was a sample lady and it was a good match for her personality.
That's eventually where she met Jonathan.

Speaker 23 When Jonathan met Sabrina at Costco, she realized, oh, you're a fireman. I have fireman friends as well.

Speaker 6 They start talking. It's flirtatious.
They exchange phone numbers. They have a couple of get-togethers.
But but it starts to develop an emotional component.

Speaker 21 He was like nobody I'd ever met before.

Speaker 37 The attention he showed me was very different than what I was getting at that time in my life.

Speaker 35 I don't know why I pursued a relationship with him.

Speaker 13 We learned that there was possible infatuation that Jonathan had with Sabrina.

Speaker 13 Jason Bernantine's wife, Kelly, actually called us and told us that Jonathan Hearn was spending quite a bit bit of time with Sabrina Lamone at her home. And Kelly found this very odd.

Speaker 6 Jonathan's showing up a lot. In Sabrina's home, he's bringing flowers, but bringing his sister with him.

Speaker 2 He started hanging around a lot more. He would even cook for the kids.

Speaker 6 But what's really bizarre is that Jonathan is trying so desperately to get himself inside this group, this wolf pack.

Speaker 6 He is really trying so hard to get in there and be a part of this group so he can be near Sabrina. Why is he doing this? Why not just keep the affair going secretly?

Speaker 12 One day, Rob Lamon discovers some pretty intimate text between the couple on Sabrina's phone. She says he angrily breaks her phone and insists that she stop seeing Jonathan.

Speaker 21 Robert was upset and he wanted to know who this guy was and what was so special about him.

Speaker 23 And I told him that I didn't know and I'm sorry.

Speaker 12 She promises to break things off, but Sabrina and Jonathan keep seeing each other.

Speaker 12 Detectives now have reason to take another look at that surveillance video gathered near the crime scene to see if they can link it to Jonathan Hearn.

Speaker 13 And we began to do some follow-up investigation into this Jonathan Hearn and found that he had a motorcycle registered to him.

Speaker 6 Jonathan Hearn has a Yamaha motorcycle that seems a lot like the one you see in the footage.

Speaker 13 So from various convenience stores, we began pulling video surveillance footage. And we did find one at the pilot station at a place commonly referred to as Four Corners.

Speaker 13 The lone motorcyclist comes into the gas station on the day of the actual homicide.

Speaker 12 The motorcyclist seen inside the convenience store at the station is wearing a red bandana, but detectives can't confirm whether it's Jonathan Hearn, so they decide it's time to kick their investigation into high gear.

Speaker 14 We immediately started thinking this could be a great case for a wiretap.

Speaker 13 What we were hoping to glean from this wiretap was conversations between Sabrina and Jonathan Hearn.

Speaker 17 Whatever happens,

Speaker 17 however it goes, I just love you.

Speaker 40 I love you.

Speaker 3 I love you

Speaker 3 to the end, to the end of the world. I love you.

Speaker 4 so um

Speaker 40 I love you Doc

Speaker 2 in the days weeks months following the murder Jonathan and Sabrina talked a lot on the phone and through these wiretap recordings we catch this glimpse into what they're discussing and they talk a lot about God they talk a lot about faith I want to be used for his glory.

Speaker 54 Whatever he wants me to do. I mean,

Speaker 54 I would top my arm off. I would shave my head.
I would, if it sucks, like what God would want for me, you know, like I'd feel that.

Speaker 16 Like, whatever.

Speaker 3 I do, too.

Speaker 51 I do too.

Speaker 28 It was quite odd.

Speaker 13 And in these conversations, Jonathan actually, at one point in time, talked about a passage in the Bible talking about David and Bathsheba.

Speaker 4 I've been reading Psalms

Speaker 3 51.

Speaker 16 The Psalms are so good.

Speaker 17 David

Speaker 17 is a lot like you and I, Sabrina.

Speaker 48 He was someone who committed adultery.

Speaker 51 Actually, that's what Psalm 51 is about.

Speaker 48 He had an affair, and then he even went on to kill

Speaker 48 the guy, like sent him into battle, and pretty much had him killed off.

Speaker 2 It's a really twisted take on religion.

Speaker 12 Is this just a spiritual discussion, or is it a roadmap to foul play?

Speaker 47 Hi, God.

Speaker 48 We're on our knees for a reason.

Speaker 17 God,

Speaker 48 we have been dirtbags.

Speaker 3 We've been sinners. We've been selfish.
We've sinned.

Speaker 19 Someone killed my friend.

Speaker 29 They needed to pay for it.

Speaker 12 So you don't hear about big crime activity here?

Speaker 13 No.

Speaker 12 So to get a call that there is a shooting.

Speaker 12 At the rail yard here. Pretty uncommon.

Speaker 41 Oh, very.

Speaker 6 Robert Lamone was brutally gunned down at his place of work.

Speaker 38 Interest was insane.

Speaker 18 I'm more than confused here, Sabrina. I'm really telling you, I think you're flat in the middle of this murder.

Speaker 12 Police are closing in on not just one, but two suspects.

Speaker 40 I love you. I love you.
I love you. At the end of the world, I love you.

Speaker 12 A man of God, a married woman, a dead husband, and a wiretap.

Speaker 12 Something's not adding up here.

Speaker 51 I wouldn't be surprised if they're listening to us right now.

Speaker 6 It forced them to have to talk about the open marriage and who's with who.

Speaker 2 It was like a car accident you couldn't look away from.

Speaker 5 I was so ready and so on fire to tell the truth that she didn't have anything to do with her husband's murder.

Speaker 38 On August 17th, 2014, Robert Lamone is working at the rail yard in Tehachapi. It's about 7 p.m.
when his coworker walks into the office and finds Robert Lamone bleeding on the ground.

Speaker 6 Police arrive on the scene, take one look, and realize it's Robert Lamone who's dead. He's been shot, and police don't know at this point what they're dealing with.

Speaker 12 Police uncover a surveillance video that shows a man walking with a limp outside Rob's workplace. Investigators initially think it might be a local transient, but he's cleared.

Speaker 12 The killer's identity is still a mystery, and Rob's wife, Sabrina, says she can't think of anybody who'd want to hurt him.

Speaker 14 He got along with everyone and everyone seemed to love him.

Speaker 13 So at this point in the investigation, there was really no additional leads. We had nothing coming in that we could follow up on.

Speaker 12 But two weeks after Rob's murder, there's a development that changes everything.

Speaker 13 Robert Lamone's friend contacted us and told us that he received a very odd message left on his cellular phone from a subject whom he identified as Jonathan Hearn.

Speaker 13 So this friend of Robert Lamone, Jason Pertnatine, knew Jonathan Hearn due to their both firefighters. And this was the very first time we had heard the name Jonathan Hearn.

Speaker 14 Jonathan basically confided that he was having some sort of a relationship with Sabrina.

Speaker 14 We immediately started looking into Jonathan to find out if we could make any sort of connection or a link to Rob.

Speaker 2 Everything in this investigation was pointing toward Jonathan Hearn,

Speaker 2 but nobody really knew at this point who he was.

Speaker 13 Jonathan Hearn was in his early 20s. He was a firefighter.
He was extremely intelligent. He had been previously a paramedic, and he had interests in becoming an arson investigator.

Speaker 38 Jonathan Hearn was from Hisparia, California and he grew up in a religious family, was homeschooled.

Speaker 27 Jonathan and I would say that we were each other's first crushes. That was always kind of our little thing and he always made me feel super special.
He was one of those guys that would dote on you.

Speaker 27 He would open the door. He always had his Bible with him.

Speaker 12 Sarah says from the time he was a child, everything in Jonathan's life centered around the church that he attended with his family.

Speaker 27 There wasn't a day where we were not on the church grounds for some type of function. We lived,

Speaker 5 ate, breathed church.

Speaker 5 He was charismatic, charming, and he loved the Lord, and that mattered to me.

Speaker 27 I would have seen him leading his own church eventually.

Speaker 12 But Hearn's life takes a different path. By December of 2012, he's working as a firefighter, and he meets this woman named Sabrina Lamon at a local Costco.

Speaker 6 Jonathan came in wearing his fireman's outfit. They kind of flirted.
They had lunch and some coffees.

Speaker 6 But then it turned into a full-on sexual relationship and then ultimately a plan to be together someday.

Speaker 12 Detectives want to know more about Jonathan and Sabrina's relationship in the wake of Rob's murder. So they decide to tap their phones.

Speaker 17 Whatever happens, Smarl, however it goes, I just love you.

Speaker 40 I love you. I love you.

Speaker 40 To the end, to the end of the world, I love you.

Speaker 4 So

Speaker 40 I love you, God.

Speaker 12 What kinds of things were you hearing in these calls?

Speaker 13 There was a lot of praying. back and forth as Jonathan is a very religious person and it seemed as though Sabrina was sort of becoming that same way.

Speaker 48 Hi, God.

Speaker 17 We were on our knees for a reason.

Speaker 3 God.

Speaker 17 We have been dirtbags.

Speaker 3 We've been sinners.

Speaker 3 We've been selfish. We've sinned.

Speaker 12 While the conversations are revealing, they're not exactly incriminating. So, detectives decide to up the ante.

Speaker 14 During a wiretap investigation, you need to get your targets or your suspects talking about the crime that you're investigating. The way you do that is by tickling the wire, so to speak.

Speaker 14 One way is to place a phone call to one of your possible suspects,

Speaker 14 give them some disinformation that might get them talking to one of the other suspects about what you just told them.

Speaker 12 Investigators feed Sabrina some false information that they've got a lead on the person caught on surveillance video riding a motorcycle outside the crime scene. She immediately calls Jonathan.

Speaker 4 Hey, Hey.

Speaker 54 I'm not sure what's going on, but Detective Meyer called me. He got a secret witness tip that

Speaker 54 a tall white male was leaving on a motorcycle

Speaker 54 around the time of Robert's murder.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 54 someone called in and said that it's someone that knows Rob by the name of John.

Speaker 51 I wouldn't be surprised if they're listening to us right now.

Speaker 56 This is just so crazy.

Speaker 54 I can't believe any of this. Mike, I can't believe any of it.

Speaker 13 One of our detectives called Sabrina and told her that during the investigation that we have found DNA evidence at the scene.

Speaker 3 Sabrina, how's it going?

Speaker 54 Oh, what's up?

Speaker 17 That's some exciting news.

Speaker 54 Okay, tell me.

Speaker 51 The crime lab just sent me an email. and said they got a good DNA sample from what they believe was a sweat drop that was on the floor.

Speaker 48 And they'll be able to get a good DNA profile from that sweat drop.

Speaker 51 It looks good.

Speaker 51 It's the best news you've gotten so far.

Speaker 54 Really? Oh, gosh. That's great.

Speaker 13 As soon as she hung up the phone with one of our detectives, immediately she called Jonathan on her burner phone.

Speaker 57 He just said, I'm sorry, I don't have a lot of information for you.

Speaker 57 Maybe I'll have more for you Wednesday.

Speaker 51 I was going to talk to you and see if you want to maybe

Speaker 51 kind of

Speaker 48 feel him out a little bit.

Speaker 13 She should have been elated and said, you know, they've got this DNA.

Speaker 13 This is going to be fantastic.

Speaker 12 That was a big moment.

Speaker 13 To me it was, yes. What was odd about that is the fact that, you know, Jonathan didn't say, oh, Sabrina, that's terrific.
They're going to find out who killed your husband.

Speaker 13 That this is fantastic news.

Speaker 12 Police have heard enough and they are now ready to move in on the couple. But do they really have enough to hold them accountable for the murder of Rob Lamone?

Speaker 30 I think he's such a husband, I've had him killed by Jonathan, so you two could be together.

Speaker 12 Three months since Robert Lamon was murdered, police have closed in on two suspects, his wife Sabrina, and her young lover, Jonathan Hearn.

Speaker 14 On November 18, 2014, the decision was made to execute search warrants at multiple locations and make the arrests of Jonathan Hearn and Sabrina Lamone for Rob's death.

Speaker 58 It was a shocking announcement from the Kern County Sheriff's Department this morning. A wife and her lover behind bars for her husband's murder.

Speaker 12 The arrests and their relationship makes huge news in the Silver Lakes area. A photo of Sabrina and Jonathan together appearing close is published in a local newspaper.

Speaker 5 I was at work and I got a call from a detective

Speaker 5 that Sabrina and Hearn had been arrested

Speaker 5 and that I needed to pick up the kids

Speaker 5 from school.

Speaker 4 And I,

Speaker 5 well, of course I freaked out.

Speaker 13 I went to Jonathan Hearn's home where detectives were conducting a search warrant investigation. I also helped in the search of that whereas we found a motorcycle, a helmet, a red bandana, a backpack,

Speaker 13 as well as we found a grocery bag full of receipts.

Speaker 59 Yeah, the right to remain silent, you understand?

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 12 Now a widow at 34, Sabrina Lamone is suddenly facing some very tough questions.

Speaker 13 After Sabrina's arrest, she was taken and she was interviewed by detectives, and during that interview, she adamantly denied any involvement in the death of her husband.

Speaker 18 I'm more than confused here, Sabrina.

Speaker 30 I'm really telling you, I think you're flat in the middle of this murder. I think he's such a husband, I've had him killed by Jonathan, so you two could be together.
Yeah.

Speaker 30 And I can tell you, that's not going to happen ever.

Speaker 40 Yeah, I.

Speaker 40 Okay?

Speaker 30 You need to get that through your head now. You are not going to be together.
He's going to end up going to prison for the rest of his life. And I've got some serious doubts about you.

Speaker 30 Okay?

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 21 Understood.

Speaker 12 For more than four hours, detectives pepper Sabrina with questions.

Speaker 55 If you don't have anything anything for us, I think we need to get you to jail.

Speaker 55 Okay.

Speaker 13 What I need you to do is I need you to stand up and turn around.

Speaker 55 Obviously, since you were already brought down here once before, you were told what you're under arrest for, correct?

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 55 For a conspiracy to commit murder and accessory to murder?

Speaker 55 Okay.

Speaker 12 It turns out that arresting Sabrina for Rob's murder is one thing, but having the evidence to prove it is another.

Speaker 13 She was just steadfast.

Speaker 13 I have no involvement in this. And she didn't really give us much.

Speaker 12 With all the evidence collected against Jonathan Hearn, who is still in jail, the DA's office believes it has a good case. But with no direct evidence linking Sabrina, she's not charged.

Speaker 12 So you're holding the two of them, but within a couple of days, Sabrina is let go.

Speaker 42 She is.

Speaker 12 There wasn't enough to hold her.

Speaker 13 At that point in time, correct.

Speaker 12 After being released, Sabrina returns to Silver Lakes, but with whispers about her affair and possible involvement in her husband's murder, not everybody's happy to have her back.

Speaker 5 They would harass her.

Speaker 5 The kids couldn't go to school. She had to homeschool them.

Speaker 5 So

Speaker 5 my cousins, they said, you know what? Come and live down here with us and we'll take care of you.

Speaker 12 Sabrina moves 140 miles away from Silver Lakes to Camarillo, California.

Speaker 61 When Sabrina decided to move out, we looked at maybe six or eight places. There was one in this community that was off the street and it was a big complex and it was right next to the soccer field.

Speaker 61 And then she looked at it and said, we'll take it.

Speaker 24 And so this is a picture of me and Sabrina at the beach

Speaker 24 at her son's birthday. We became instant friends.
Our boys are a week apart, and we found out that we were married on the same day in the same year. Her husband passed away and so did mine.

Speaker 24 She was involved in a church. She's an amazing mom.

Speaker 24 She adored her kids, and that was her focus then to be the best mom she can be.

Speaker 12 With a new life and now new friends, Karen says Sabrina eventually opens up about her past.

Speaker 24 It was one weekend we went, we took my daughter to a soccer tournament. And we got a room for our kids and a room for us.
And that's when she shared her life with me.

Speaker 24 Told me what happened

Speaker 24 and about her husband being murdered. And that's when I kind of learned the story.

Speaker 12 But for two years, with Sabrina now settling into a new life after Silver Lakes, detectives are quietly building their case against her.

Speaker 13 Detectives in this case believe that Sabrina and Jonathan did conspire to kill Rob.

Speaker 13 We just had a little bit more work to do in order to allow the district attorney's office to provide us with a warrant to rearrest Sabrina.

Speaker 12 While Sabrina is starting over, Jonathan is sitting in a jail cell on murder charges. With his trial date approaching, he now faces a monumental decision.

Speaker 43 And so when we had a conversation with him, I think that there were a variety of factors.

Speaker 43 One of them was that we had trial coming up and that if we were going to make a deal, now is the time to do it and it was going to cost something.

Speaker 13 We received a phone call from the district attorney's office and said they were contacted by Clayton Campbell, indicating that Jonathan Hearn did in fact wish to testify and provide information.

Speaker 43 Initially, as charged, he was facing life without the possibility of parole. And so they made this deal, but it was a substantial sentence.
It was still 25 years.

Speaker 43 Jonathan was going to have to tell the prosecutor about Sabrina's involvement, and he was going to have to tell them everything.

Speaker 12 And it was a circumstantial case. Nobody saw this.
There were no eyewitnesses, no DNA, just Jonathan's word against Sabrina's.

Speaker 59 Correct.

Speaker 5 There was a knock at the door,

Speaker 5 and it was

Speaker 5 the district attorney and the detectives.

Speaker 5 And

Speaker 5 Sabrina didn't have any shoes on and she they asked her to come outside

Speaker 5 and she went outside and I started freaking out

Speaker 13 the way she was acting towards us was like I can't believe this you know how basically how dare you you know how dare you come and arrest me I'm not involved in this I didn't do anything the widow of a man found dead in Tehachapi two years ago has been arrested in his death with Jonathan Hearn's cooperation Sabrina Lamon is now squarely in the prosecutor's crosshairs.

Speaker 9 She couldn't sit back and play the innocent card anymore.

Speaker 63 Emotions were high in the courtroom this afternoon as Jonathan Hearn took to the stand for the first time in Sabrina Lamon's trial.

Speaker 6 It's been three years since Robert Lamone was brutally gunned down at his place of work.

Speaker 6 Now, his own wife, she goes up against one major witness, the man she once loved, the man she swore she wanted a future with.

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Speaker 38 A trial sparking national attention, getting underway this morning. Sabrina Limon facing murder and conspiracy charges.

Speaker 12 It's September 11th, 2017.

Speaker 12 At Kern County Superior Court in Bakersfield, California, Sabrina Limon is about to stand trial.

Speaker 12 She's pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Speaker 38 We'll continue to keep you up to date on our website, turnit23.com, as well as our mobile and tablet app. The general interest was insane.
This wasn't just Bakersfield, Kern County, where I worked.

Speaker 38 This was a national attention story.

Speaker 6 Deputy District Attorney Eric Smith tells the jury that the motive for this murder was love and money.

Speaker 43 Both Sabrina and Jonathan, they had a plan, and that plan was to get rid of Robert Lamone.

Speaker 3 Why?

Speaker 13 So they could be together.

Speaker 61 Why? So she could get in excess of $300,000 in life insurance money.

Speaker 12 The prosecution's case hinges on its star witness.

Speaker 12 Jonathan Hearn, the man who's about to turn on the woman he once loved and adored, Sabrina Lamone.

Speaker 45 I do.

Speaker 38 Pern laid out for the jury how he met Sabrina, how their relationship started, and then how it evolved and blossomed into the level where they were having those deep conversations about having a future together.

Speaker 45 When I met her, there was a sort of emotional magnetism there. I just found her to be a very entrancing person.

Speaker 12 Jonathan testifies that he suggested Sabrina divorce Rob, but says she rejected the idea.

Speaker 15 She expressed that he would honestly rather be dead than divorced. Losing her would essentially kill him.

Speaker 38 What Jonathan said was pretty ironic because that turned into the next part of the conversation for Jonathan and Sabrina.

Speaker 47 What did Sabrina tell you she wanted you to do?

Speaker 15 With respect to Rob to kill him.

Speaker 12 Jonathan testifies about what he says is the couple's first attempt to kill Rob.

Speaker 12 A bizarre plot to poison him with arsenic mixed into one of his favorite desserts.

Speaker 15 Banana pudding with vanilla wafers.

Speaker 48 I

Speaker 45 stirred in the

Speaker 45 arsenic into the pudding.

Speaker 6 Jonathan says she places the container in his lunch bag and sends him off to work, but then she panics and she chickens out.

Speaker 45 She called Robert and then she told him to not eat the pudding because I think she said that she told him the bananas had gone bad in it.

Speaker 12 But Jonathan testifies that the couple doesn't give up, saying they next come up with a scheme to kill Robert at the Tehachapi warehouse.

Speaker 43 Now in your planning or lead up to the second attempt, what information did Sabrina provide you?

Speaker 15 She offered to find me pictures of the facility. She described the office layout and the interior to give me a kind of an idea of what to expect.

Speaker 38 It was really chilling to hear how precise the descriptions of the preparation that he undertook for that day were.

Speaker 15 I assembled some of the clothing that I would be wearing, a mask, two backpacks.

Speaker 15 extra ammunition, also some of the clothing, disguised clothing that I'd be wearing.

Speaker 6 Jonathan actually crafted his own silencer and he made it out of a large flashlight that he somehow attached to his weapon.

Speaker 12 On August 17th, 2014, Jonathan makes that fateful trip to the Tehachapi warehouse.

Speaker 12 He says that's him in the surveillance video deliberately faking a limp to help disguise his identity.

Speaker 12 Once inside the garage, he says he spots Rob.

Speaker 15 At that time, Robert approached.

Speaker 15 We briefly spoke. He went to retrieve some things, and I went to pull out a firearm.
However, the silencer was kind of stuck in the corner of the backpack that I had.

Speaker 15 So I fired the first shot from within the bag.

Speaker 6 Jonathan begins ransacking the office in this attempt to make it look like a robbery gone bad.

Speaker 6 He rifles through some drawers. He throws some papers around.

Speaker 6 He steals the laptop that's on the desk.

Speaker 6 He turns around to leave. And guess what? He thought he had heard some sort of gurgling sounds from Robert Lamone.

Speaker 15 I really didn't want to leave him if he wasn't

Speaker 15 entirely dead. So I went back around the backside of the truck and fired one more shot at him

Speaker 15 and then closed the garage door behind me.

Speaker 2 Were you feeling happiness, elation, excitement?

Speaker 15 Immediately leaving, probably fear,

Speaker 15 regret, and I'm sorry this sounds bad, but of relief that what had been in the works for so long was

Speaker 15 finally done.

Speaker 12 Jonathan says he then gets on his motorcycle and drives home, stopping at a gas station along the way.

Speaker 12 That's him captured on that surveillance video.

Speaker 47 When you got home, what did you do?

Speaker 15 I saw that I had a lot of missed calls from Sabrina, so I called her. She wanted to make sure I was okay,

Speaker 15 and I did express that I had done it and that

Speaker 15 everything was about to change.

Speaker 2 I think Jonathan Hearn's testimony was particularly striking, mostly because of his demeanor.

Speaker 2 He talked about the murder that he carried out just so matter-of-factly. It was really strange.

Speaker 12 But remember, this is a case of he said she lied. Now it's the defense's turn.

Speaker 12 And their star witness is none other than Sabrina Lamon.

Speaker 36 You and Jonathan ever talk about him killing Robert.

Speaker 3 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 38 Sabrina Lamon's defense attorney, Richard Terry, in in his opening statements, really was trying to show Jonathan Hearn as a calculated killer who Sabrina Lamone was a victim to.

Speaker 3 She was vulnerable, and he played on that

Speaker 28 and used that and manipulated her, and he killed her husband.

Speaker 39 The most important thing I was trying to bring across to the jury was that Jonathan had been living a lie his entire life by his religious ideation when he actually didn't believe it.

Speaker 38 As they would play the wire-tapped conversations in court, really the thing that stood out was how often Jonathan Hearn would bring up God faith.

Speaker 17 We know that you have said that

Speaker 3 screw John B. Robertson that are set killers, the witness,

Speaker 3 adulterers, a common human saint of any critic to your head there.

Speaker 38 Considering all the conversation about God and faith, it was very interesting to hear what he said when being cross-examined by Richard Terry.

Speaker 31 Or you really weren't a true Christian if you weren't that devout.

Speaker 53 Is that right?

Speaker 45 Yes, sir.

Speaker 18 In other words, you mouthed the words.

Speaker 52 Is that right?

Speaker 15 That would be a good characterization.

Speaker 41 In other words, you really didn't believe it?

Speaker 15 I can say probably from the age of

Speaker 15 18 and onward,

Speaker 15 it was pretty artificial.

Speaker 7 All this

Speaker 2 pious

Speaker 39 front you put on is nothing but fabrication. So how can you believe anything coming from this man's mouth?

Speaker 12 And one thing Terry says Jonathan is lying about is that plan to kill Rob Lamone with poisoned banana pudding.

Speaker 12 Remember, Jonathan testified that Sabrina suddenly panicked the day he said Rob took that deadly dessert to work.

Speaker 12 So she called

Speaker 60 Rob when he was at work to tell him not to eat it.

Speaker 53 Is that right?

Speaker 15 That's what she told me, yes.

Speaker 60 Were you ever aware that Sabrina never called her husband those two days he was working in Tehachapi in April?

Speaker 15 I was not aware of that.

Speaker 12 Terry also accuses Jonathan of lying when he testified that Sabrina had given him Rob's work schedule for August 17th, the day of the murder.

Speaker 36 He didn't know until the day before he was killed that he was going to be there.

Speaker 22 How is Sabrina telling you within two weeks of August 17th that Rob was going to be there on August 17th?

Speaker 45 That seems strange. I'm not sure.

Speaker 12 When it's his time to present witnesses, Terry calls three people to the stand who are very close to Sabrina. Her two children and her sister, Julie.

Speaker 5 She's an amazing mother.

Speaker 3 Her heart and soul is

Speaker 19 everything in those kids.

Speaker 3 She had nothing but love, love, love.

Speaker 41 Would she ever,

Speaker 48 in your opinion, be involved in anything that would harm Rob?

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 5 I was so ready and so on fire to tell the truth that she didn't have anything to do with her husband's murder.

Speaker 38 So the prosecution had Jonathan Hearn as their star witness. The defense, well, they had Sabrina Lamone as their star witness.

Speaker 36 This time the defense was called Sabrina Lamone to the stand.

Speaker 39 I felt it was necessary for Sabrina to testify because I think the jury needed to get to know who she was.

Speaker 39 They needed to understand why she had become involved with Jonathan Hearn.

Speaker 53 Was there something about your relationship with Jonathan that you felt you needed?

Speaker 37 Apparently there was, and at that time it became our sacred relationship.

Speaker 35 And

Speaker 35 I guess that's now looking at it, what I

Speaker 37 was lacking in my life, in my marriage.

Speaker 12 But while Sabria admits to planning a future with Jonathan, she says she thought she could also continue having a life with her husband.

Speaker 22 Were you at any time seriously really considering leaving Rob?

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 46 Why not?

Speaker 37 I couldn't imagine my life without Rob.

Speaker 37 Why?

Speaker 35 Because I loved him.

Speaker 12 Sabrina testifies that any life insurance money that she got was put into a savings account for her kids and to pay for living expenses.

Speaker 12 She also strongly denies ever hatching a plot with Jonathan to poison Rob's dessert.

Speaker 22 Did he ever provide you with any vanilla wafer banana pudding to give to Robert?

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 12 Sabrina testifies that she was grief-stricken when she was notified that her husband had been killed.

Speaker 35 I dropped to my knees,

Speaker 35 started crying.

Speaker 22 Did you and Jonathan at all that day ever talk about him killing Robert?

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 22 Were you aware at that time that Jonathan had killed Robert?

Speaker 4 No.

Speaker 12 But prosecutor Eric Smith argues that Sabrina was hardly acting like a grieving widow, pointing to text that she sent to Jonathan shortly after her husband's funeral.

Speaker 61 Oh, how I love you. I adore you, Jonathan Hearn.
Exclamation mark, you sexy guy. Did you write that?

Speaker 37 Well, apparently I did. I can't explain

Speaker 24 that

Speaker 37 time in my life. It's unexplainable.

Speaker 59 Two days days later, I want to kiss you right now and not stop.

Speaker 37 Unexplainable.

Speaker 12 Sabrina is also questioned about those wiretaps where prosecutors say she was tipping off Jonathan about the details of the police investigation.

Speaker 54 Detective Meyer called me. He got his secret witness tip re-releasing the video.

Speaker 12 Sabrina testifies that she was just following Jonathan's directions.

Speaker 37 He wanted to know everything that was going on, and I told him. I trusted him.
He had told me that, you know, just the dangers of what could happen

Speaker 37 when an affair is exposed,

Speaker 21 how the police think and how they work.

Speaker 2 On the stand, Sabrina Lamone

Speaker 2 was very emotionless, just seemed very sullen.

Speaker 5 Sabrina, I think, was just

Speaker 5 so

Speaker 5 tired. and devastated and

Speaker 5 I don't know that she came across the way she should have to the jury.

Speaker 12 Sabrina Lamon's fate is now in the hands of the jury

Speaker 12 and the question is did she make her case or did she bury herself even deeper?

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Speaker 26 Closing arguments are set to take place tomorrow after the prosecution and the defense rested this afternoon.

Speaker 36 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 38 In his closing argument, Richard Terry really tried to hammer home that Jonathan Hearn had an incentive to get on the stand and potentially lie because he was given this plea deal.

Speaker 22 He, to save his own hide,

Speaker 39 came in and spun his story

Speaker 22 so that he would have a day out

Speaker 12 of prison

Speaker 7 in the future

Speaker 18 and to take away her life.

Speaker 38 In Eric Smith's closing arguments, he really points to a lot of evidence showing that Sabrina Lamone had to have known and played a part in the plot to kill Robert Lamone.

Speaker 59 That's in the text messages, that's in the pre-planning, that's in the cell phone locations,

Speaker 59 that's in the wiretaps, it's throughout, it's replete throughout.

Speaker 59 She needs to be held accountable for what she did with Jonathan Hearn.

Speaker 59 She needs to be held accountable for letting her husband suffer because he did.

Speaker 12 After 15 days and dozens of witnesses heard, the Sabrina Lamone murder case is now in the hands of the jury.

Speaker 39 There's no way to predict how a jury is going to come back. Any lawyer who says, well, this is a slam dunk win, I can guarantee you, are lying through their teeth.

Speaker 28 I was hopeful that they would acquit her. So, after about five or so hours, the jury came back with the long-awaited verdict.

Speaker 66 We, the jury, and paneled to try the above entitled cause, find the defendant, Sabrina Le Mon, guilty of a felony to wit, murder of Robert Le Mon.

Speaker 28 When the jury came back,

Speaker 39 my first reaction was disappointment,

Speaker 48 anger,

Speaker 14 frustration.

Speaker 5 She didn't do this. I know that.

Speaker 5 She's an amazing mother, amazing person.

Speaker 5 She would never do anything

Speaker 7 like this.

Speaker 5 When that verdict came, it was

Speaker 27 heart-wrenching.

Speaker 5 And we had so many people come up to us and just say how wrong.

Speaker 4 How wrong it was.

Speaker 5 That was not the right verdict.

Speaker 29 it was all very difficult to listen to

Speaker 5 when it's someone that you've loved your whole life and you get to listen to

Speaker 12 people planning what they're going to do or what they've done

Speaker 5 to end his life

Speaker 12 Sabrina Lamon is convicted on four of the six counts against her including first-degree murder, attempted murder, solicitation of murder, and conspiracy.

Speaker 12 The one thing she's acquitted of is the alleged poison banana pudding attempt on Robert's life.

Speaker 66 We, the jury, find it to be not true that Sabrina Limon placed the pudding with arsenic into Robert Limon's lunch.

Speaker 6 The jury did not buy that she had anything to do with that, clearly. But then it makes you wonder: then, on what grounds did they think she had something to do with this ultimate murder?

Speaker 12 In November of 2017, Jonathan Hearn is officially sentenced to the terms of his plea deal. He is convicted not of murder, but manslaughter and gets 25 years and four months in prison.

Speaker 38 In stark contrast to when he was on the stand testifying against Sabrina Lamone, this time at his sentencing, Jonathan Hearn was emotional from the start.

Speaker 22 To Robert's family and his dear friends, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 22 I'm sorry for stealing your brother, your friend,

Speaker 22 your beloved relative, and taking your joy from you. I am at once the vilest offender.
My God, Terry, so heaven's safe,

Speaker 22 in Christ forgiven.

Speaker 12 But there's no public remorse or apology from Sabrina Lamone.

Speaker 12 She immediately files a motion with a new attorney asking for a new trial, saying that her previous lawyer, Richard Terry, should never have put her on the stand in the first place.

Speaker 24 I don't know why he even put her on the stands.

Speaker 24 To me it wasn't a good choice because it really didn't do good for her.

Speaker 39 Was I nervous about it? Yeah.

Speaker 39 But it's not my decision to make. She made the decision herself and I think she had to stand up for herself.

Speaker 6 On February 21 of 2018, now going into four years since her husband was brutally gunned down, Sabrina Lamone hears her fate.

Speaker 47 Okay, I've read and considered the briefs and I've heard their oral arguments regarding the motion for new trial. Motion for new trial is denied.

Speaker 47 Proceed to sentencing.

Speaker 12 Sabrina is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, plus an additional 16 months. At the hearing, Robert Lamon's sister, Lydia, speaks.

Speaker 67 I believe God gave Sabrina a choice. Build a friendship or choose to deceit by concealing an affair that resulted in the murder of our brother.

Speaker 67 Sabrina had all the power to make the final decisions to do what was right.

Speaker 56 Instead, she made the decisions that brought overwhelming destruction, division, brokenness to the two most affected by her actions, her brother's children.

Speaker 9 I think she should serve life in prison myself.

Speaker 9 She cheated my brother out of a relationship with his children. She cheated the children from having a father.

Speaker 12 After her sentencing, Sabrina Lamon is now living behind bars at a California women's prison, out of sight and out of mind. But could her conviction soon be overturned?

Speaker 21 Today I'm in Chino, California, driving to see my client, Sabrina Lamon, who's incarcerated at the California Institution for Women.

Speaker 21 Sabrina's been doing really well ever since she's been incarcerated. Today we're going to discuss possible further steps to take in the appellate process.

Speaker 12 How is she doing in prison?

Speaker 29 I saw her very recently and I was very impressed.

Speaker 29 She has a lot of remorse for how her family was destroyed and she takes responsibility that that would not have occurred if she had not engaged in that lifestyle.

Speaker 29 But I do not believe she should have been convicted of murder, soliciting murder, or conspiracy to commit murder.

Speaker 12 On appeal, Valerie Wash argues that Sabrina was wrongfully convicted because Jonathan Hearn's testimony was never corroborated.

Speaker 29 If you took away Jonathan's testimony and you just had Sabrina's testimony that she at one point told Jonathan where her husband worked and that he'd be working that day, how does that prove her intent to kill?

Speaker 12 But to prosecutors and the jury apparently bought it, that gave him an indication of when and where to find her husband. They see that as corroboration.

Speaker 29 It corroborates that, but how is the content of his other testimony corroborated that she had the intent to kill, that she asked him to kill her husband, that she conspired to kill him?

Speaker 29 There's nothing. Nothing.

Speaker 12 But the Court of Appeals rejects that argument, saying the law doesn't require corroboration of criminal intent.

Speaker 29 I feel that it was insufficient corroboration of his testimony, but the Court of Appeal disagreed. We filed a petition for review in the California Supreme Court.
That was denied.

Speaker 29 She's exhausted her state remedies, which allows her now to proceed in federal court.

Speaker 12 Jonathan, now 33 years old, is currently behind bars at the Ironwood State Prison in Blythe, California.

Speaker 43 Jonathan is occupied in prison in an administrative capacity, and he's also participated in the prison ministry.

Speaker 12 And you're convinced that he told the truth?

Speaker 13 Absolutely. And I think 12 people on the jury saw it the same.

Speaker 5 Jonathan killed Robert on his own. An absolutely manipulative monster took

Speaker 4 our Robert's life

Speaker 5 and Sabrina is paying the price for it.

Speaker 9 I believe Sabrina only used Jonathan to get what she wanted and still is not admitting her part in all the circumstances that revolved around my brother's death.

Speaker 11 These are my brother's ashes. It's a way to always keep him close to my heart.

Speaker 9 He was my baby brother,

Speaker 11 and he's just no longer with us, but I can keep his memory in the times that we got to share together.

Speaker 10 No,

Speaker 12 close to me.

Speaker 13 A sister's love for her brother.

Speaker 28 And we should point out tonight that Sabrina Lamone will be eligible for parole in 2033.

Speaker 12 Jonathan Hearn will be eligible five years earlier in 2028. That's our program for tonight.
Thanks for watching. I'm Deborah Roberts.

Speaker 28 And I'm David Muir from All of Us here at 2020 and ABC News.

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